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I will stop and pick up a worm if i see one crossing a road or path and place it back in the verge. No relevance to this thread really, except my wife worries if i do this and get hit by a car the worm might not make it either.
When doing the Twentyfour12 last yr I camped myself under one of the big floodlights alongside the road by the camping area in a desparate bid to find out why my ability to select gears had gone to pot.
I was sat there with muc off/water/tools/cloths cleaning away and saw this huge black stag beetle making his way across the path. There were lots of weary people wandering/cycling along this path (it was about 1am) and I was convinced this beetle wasn't going to make it without being squished.
I think the tiredness was playing tricks on me and I was convinced I had to help this beetle so I picked it up and carried it over to the other side of the path, where I let it carry on it's way.
It was just part of the Twentyfour12 cameraderie - 🙂
I then discovered I had kinked a link in my chain to about a 45deg angle in the direction of chain travel so the chain was in all sorts of trouble as it went round the drive train. I did it about 10 mins into the first of 2 laps (just before the steep road climb for those that did it too) and it had survived two laps in this state.
waffling now....................dinner time.
I ran a penguin over a couple of years back, little thing hopped up onto the road in front of me and i didn;t have a chance to get out of its way. I took it home and buried it in the garden after i'd photogrpahed it cos that whats you have to do here (blue penguins). I also hit one in a kayak quite recently and it was a bit p1ssed off and tried to eat the boat ! It was its own fault for surfing down the waves and not watching what was coming the other way !